A SUPERSTITIOUS MAN
LOSS OF " LUCKY " PENNY Superstition is generally considered to be a woman's failing, but that there aro men who also give way to it was demonstrated in Auckland, recently. The Auckland Hospital Auxiliary has collection boxes placed in the offices of a number of hotels for donations from visitors, and the president of the auxiliary received an urgent telephone call recently from a young bridegroom who asked that the box in a certain city hotel should be immediately opened and a lucky penny returned to him. The bridegroom explained that he had dropped the penny in the box in mistake for a florin and feared bad luck in his married life if the penny was not returned. The member of the auxiliary who has charge of the collection boxes was out of town at the time and, after much trouble, the lady's husband found the key to the box and opened it. The lucky penny was restored to the grateful bridegroom, who replaced it with the promised florin.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21494, 18 May 1933, Page 3
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